Great suggestions in Reddit post on how to make darker nights awesome

explodingpens · Oct 31, 2013

The PS2 subreddit is, much like this board, hotly debating the darker nights. My favourite post comes from user Aozi, which I felt I just had to share here, since he himself said he hadn't.

http://www.reddit.com/r/Planetside/...arker_nights_about_to_be_pulled_again/cd3ls9b

Aozi said:

“A lot of people want a dark night without realizing that it simply will not work with the current game.

In order to make dark nights work there need to be mechanics built around dealing with that darkness. E.g players having permanent access to a flashlight, deployable light sources for engies, bases and vehicles getting equipped with powerful searchlights, etc etc.

Sure getting a really dark night looks cool and is all immersive and ****. But it's annoying. You can't see by default unless you have the HS/NV scope and run around ADS'ing all the time, or getting a 100 cert attachment that changes the way your weapon works. Both are not good options and both **** your overall effectiveness.

While on the other hand vehicles have massive sweeping thermal and night vision scopes, especially air. Infantry will have very few ways to deal with anything, the range on both the flashlight and HS/NV is small, base turrets sport no night vision options so you can't even really use them to counter anything.

There simply aren't enough ways to deal with darkness. In order to make dark nights enjoyable we need ways to light darker areas and to deal with darkness, here are some ideas.

Player mounted flashlights that are available by default to everyone.

New optics slot for infantry, give infantry the ability to upgrade and modify their optics. Start off with night vision optics that actually works like night vision, meaning it'll actually blind you momentarily if used in well lit areas or if someone points a light at you. Other optic options could be things like Zoom, enhanced spotting, displaying friendly/enemy ammo amounts when hovering over a target, ability to scan an enemy revealing their loadout, or plenty of others

Searchlights for vehicles. Give very powerful lights to vehicles allowing them to illuminate large areas

Give bases lights. Base areas should be well lit, bases should have automated sweeping searchlights on the outside that could be destroyed and repaired. Interior areas like inside of towers, tech plants, biolabs, etc should all be well lit with the option to disable lights. Inside areas of amp station walls should have plenty of light to see everything

All base turrets need to have a night vision option.

Provide more night vision scope options. Currently the HS/NV is the only night vision scope available. So during nights that's pretty much your only option. We need more options. Every zoom level should have a night vision options, make it look like the NV options for vehicles, meaning everything is green and enemies aren't highlighted.

Flareguns. Could be a purchasable resource available by default to all players.

I'm sure others can come up with more ideas, but the bottom line is that we need more options to deal with darkness. Fumbling around in the dark while getting shot by enemies you cannot see with no options to really deal with the darkness, is ********. It's annoying, most people dislike what it does to their gameplay more than they appreciate the immersion.

tl;dr Sure dark nights are awesome, just give me some ways to deal with them.”

Maverick-Hunter · Oct 31, 2013

Totally agree with this, there needs to be a better way to deal with the darker night- and i do not think that they should remove it.

Jac70 · Oct 31, 2013

Some good suggestions in there. For me though the big issue with dark nights is making it so that people cannot just circumvent it by turning their gamma up to 100.

Nilbog · Oct 31, 2013

Excellent suggestions here

Nathaniak · Oct 31, 2013

Put a generator within each base that controls the lights. Imagine being in a biolab fight, at night, and the lights go out...

daniel696 · Oct 31, 2013

Perfect.

Maverick-Hunter · Oct 31, 2013

Nathaniak said: ↑

“Put a generator within each base that controls the lights. Imagine being in a biolab fight, at night, and the lights go out...”

That would be a friggin exciting chaos fight *___* And it would be a test for each platoon leader to still keep the control over the battlefield, hell yeah i cant wait to see this incoming.

AJ92 · Oct 31, 2013

I highly agree with these suggestions. It makes perfect sense to keep the nights in the game as it paves the way for new content.

Two options:
Remove nights because it makes it hard to see.
Add new content that makes nights an event of their own.

I think it is pretty obvious which of the two is better for the game's overall health.

Quicksilver · Oct 31, 2013

Very much agree! I love everything about this

daniel696 · Nov 1, 2013

Agree

libbmaster · Nov 4, 2013

Totally agree.

More epic features! Darker nights! Yay!

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